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Log portal building of the Forest mine near Rico, Colorado 1897.





Harold Agnew, physicist on the Manhattan Project, holding plutonium core of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb to be dropped on Nagasaki, 1945


In this ca. 1880 photo, a beer hall at Buena Vista, Colorado is fully stocked with kegs of beer. The 1879 mining boom at Leadville greatly stimulated the settlements of the Arkansas River Valley and Buena Vista emerged as an important supply and transportation center for the area.